History of Scientific Thought as a Tube-Map
Boing Boing posted this really cool drawing of the history of science since the 1500s as a subway map.
Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos augmented-reality maps
This TED talk—from the architect of Bing Maps at Microsoft—shows some really cool augmented-reality stuff. Soon this kind of tech will be in mobile phones.
These maps (of many major cities) show where tourists take pictures and where locals take pictures. Tourists are in red; locals in blue.
Pictured here is San Francisco. The Orlando map is quite good as well—Orlando does a good job of keeping the tourists segregated from the city itself.
If San Francisco Crime were Elevation
Doug McCune took the crime data for San Francisco from 2009 and plotted it as an elevation map of the city.
